Puerto Rican history

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/4/2022
  

  2022's Labor Uprising Reminds of More Radical Past and Possible Future

  by Xochitl Gonzalez

  The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Organization encouraged its college-educated members to take on industrial work to support a labor union movement in crisis; the moment encouraged a broader sense of who is a worker. Today, are workers in health, service, and logistics coming to a similar recognition? 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  12/15/2021
  

  Puerto Rican History Deserves More than a Mural

  by Jacqueline Lazú

  Instead of rehashing "West Side Story," Hollywood should tell the story of Chicago's Young Lords Organization. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/28/2020
  

  How a Fight Over a Black Lives Matter Statement Transformed an Academic Association

  Debates catalyzed by a policy statement on the police killing of George Floyd illuminated political and generational rifts in the Puerto Rican Studies Association and led to a turnover of leadership.